delete files in a driectory

[Kiran Gaddam]

Hello All,

I need to write code to delete all the files in a specified directory, but not the directory..

I have this code...

import java.io.File;

public class Directory {

	public static boolean deleteDir(File dir) {
		if (dir.exists()) {
			System.out.println("yes it exists..");
		}

		if (dir.isDirectory()) {
			String[] children = dir.list();
			for (int i = 0; i < children.length; i++) {
				System.out.println("file name is:  " + children[i]);
				boolean success = deleteDir(new File(dir, children[i]));
				//boolean success = false;
				if (!success) {
					return false;
				}
			}
		}

		return dir.delete();
	}

	public static void main(String[] args) {
		Directory d = new Directory();		
		File dir = new File("C:/Users/aaaa/Desktop/asdf");
		boolean yesOrNo = d.deleteDir(dir);
		System.out.println("Files deleted is : " + yesOrNo);

	}

}

but it is deleting the whole folder and files in it ( "C:/Users/aaaa/Desktop/asdf").
I only want the files in the folder to be deleted... not the folder

any ideas is appreciated..

Thankyou

[Paul Clapham]

Well, yes, that's what line 22 does. So apparently you want the starting directory (your "specified" directory) to be treated differently than the directories under it. The starting directory should be left alone but the directories under it should be deleted.

Everything else in your code looks just fine: recursive method (good), don't delete directory until everything in it has been deleted (good), but unfortunately you treat the starting directory the same as the others (not good). So you're going to need additional code which takes care of that particular situation.